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A Delicious Country - Rediscovering the Carolinas along the Route of John Lawson's 1700 Expedition (Hardcover)
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A Delicious Country - Rediscovering the Carolinas along the Route of John Lawson's 1700 Expedition (Hardcover)
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In 1700, a young man named John Lawson left London and landed in
Charleston, South Carolina, hoping to make a name for himself. For
reasons unknown, he soon undertook a two-month journey through the
still-mysterious Carolina backcountry. His travels yielded A New
Voyage to Carolina in 1709, one of the most significant early
American travel narratives, rich with observations about the
region's environment and Indigenous people. Lawson later helped
found North Carolina's first two cities, Bath and New Bern; became
the colonial surveyor general; contributed specimens to what is now
the British Museum; and was killed as the first casualty of the
Tuscarora War. Yet despite his great contributions and remarkable
history, Lawson is little remembered, even in the Carolinas he
documented. In 2014, Scott Huler made a surprising decision: to
leave home and family for his own journey by foot and canoe,
faithfully retracing Lawson's route through the Carolinas. This is
the chronicle of that unlikely voyage, revealing what it's like to
rediscover your own home. Combining a traveler's curiosity, a
naturalist's keen observation, and a writer's wit, Huler draws our
attention to people and places we might pass regularly but never
really see. What he finds are surprising parallels between Lawson's
time and our own, with the locals and their world poised along a
knife-edge of change between a past they can't forget and a future
they can't quite envision.
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